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Specialty Museum Attractions In Hiroshima Prefecture

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Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Hiroshima. It has a population of around 2.8 million.
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Hiroshima Prefecture

  • 1. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Hiroshima
    Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims . The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by thousands of people each year. The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was planned and designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzō Tange at Tange Lab. The location of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was once the city’s busiest downtown commercial and residential district. The park was built on an open field that was created by the explosion. Today there ar...
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  • 2. Yamato Museum Kure
    The Yamato Museum is a nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.
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  • 3. JMSDF Kure Museum Kure
    The Japan Maritime Self Defence Force Kure Museum is a Japanese military museum located in Kure, Hiroshima. It is also known as the Iron Whale Museum after its main exhibit, JMSDF's diesel-electric submarine Akishio . The museum is to hold exhibits related to minesweeping and submarine operations. The JMSDF also has museums related to aircraft at Kanoya, Kagoshima and related to surface vessels at Sasebo, Nagasaki. It displays a number of torpedoes. It is located next to the Yamato Museum.
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  • 5. Fukuyama Auto & Clock Museum Fukuyama
    Fukuyama Station is a railway station in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company .
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  • 8. Yamato Gallery Zero Kure
    The Yamato Museum is a nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.
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  • 11. Takehara Museum Takehara
    Takehara is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on November 3, 1958. As of 2016, the city has an estimated population of 26,035 and a population density of 220 persons per km². The total area is 118.30 km². Ōkunoshima, the island where a poison gas plant of the Imperial Japanese Army was located, belongs to Takehara. Occupying a strategic location on the Seto Inland Sea, it became renowned as a port city in the Muromachi period and then flourished as a centre of the salt industry in the latter days of the Edo period. More recently, it has styled itself as The Little Kyoto of Aki and the Special Historical District of old warehouses was selected as one of Japan's 100 Most Scenic Towns.
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  • 13. Kure City Art Museum Kure
    Kure is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial heritage Kure hosts the second oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force . As of 1 May 2015, the city has an estimated population of 228,030 and a population density of 646 persons per km². The total area is 352.80 km².
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  • 14. Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum Hiroshima
    The Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum is a peace museum in Fukuromachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was one of the closest schools to ground zero when the atomic bomb fell on August 6, 1945. They lost about 160 students and teachers and the building was heavily damaged. After a few days, the school became a first aid station, and its black burned wall became a message board to find missing people. The Peace Museum is the section of the school building with the basement of the former Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima. The school is keeping it as a relic of the atomic explosion, to foster peace, and to send their information to the world.
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